Watchdog card - Hardware

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Does anyone know where one could get a cheapish PCI watchdog card for my
server? It keeps randomly hanging, often when there is no-one around to
reboot it manually.
Actually if anyone has any hints on how to debug ...

Watchdog card

Hi,

Does anyone know where one could get a cheapish PCI watchdog card for my
server? It keeps randomly hanging, often when there is no-one around to
reboot it manually.

Actually if anyone has any hints on how to debug this it'd be great
too It's a Gentoo box mainly for running MythTV and when it hangs it
becomes totally unresponsive and the video output stops too. I suspect
it could be the graphics drivers but it could well be one of the other
drivers or even a hardware fault (temps are fine), impossible to tell.

Thanks,

Peter.

Re: Watchdog card

Peter Spikings wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know where one could get a cheapish PCI watchdog card for my
> server? It keeps randomly hanging, often when there is no-one around to
> reboot it manually.
>
> Actually if anyone has any hints on how to debug this it'd be great
> too It's a Gentoo box mainly for running MythTV and when it hangs it
> becomes totally unresponsive and the video output stops too. I suspect
> it could be the graphics drivers but it could well be one of the other
> drivers or even a hardware fault (temps are fine), impossible to tell.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Peter.

What motherboard?

Cheers

Tim

Re: Watchdog card

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 21:51 +0000, Tim S wrote:
> Peter Spikings wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know where one could get a cheapish PCI watchdog card for my
> > server? It keeps randomly hanging, often when there is no-one around to
> > reboot it manually.
> >
> > Actually if anyone has any hints on how to debug this it'd be great
> > too It's a Gentoo box mainly for running MythTV and when it hangs it
> > becomes totally unresponsive and the video output stops too. I suspect
> > it could be the graphics drivers but it could well be one of the other
> > drivers or even a hardware fault (temps are fine), impossible to tell.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter.
>
> What motherboard?
>

It's a cheap SIS one, no matter however.... I noticed last night that
when it crashed the noise of the fans simultaneously dropped
significantly so I went straight out to buy a new PSU which seems to
have sorted it.